The Puppeteer, Sigurd Sigurson, had lived for a length of time unimaginable to any human.
He had freely crossed a thousand dimensions and left behind remarkable achievements, while the storehouses hidden inside his Labyrinth overflowed with rare treasures gathered from countless dimensions.
Among them all, what the Puppeteer treasured most were the fragments of a shattered Milestone.
Long ago, an Oracle had done something peculiar.
Instead of using one of the few Milestones he could create during his lifetime for himself, he scattered them throughout countless dimensions.
Those Milestones passed through the hands of many different races, and each time they did, they drastically altered the fate of the dimension they entered.
Among them was a Milestone that, after fulfilling all its functions, shattered into dozens of pieces.
One of those fragments happened to fall into the Puppeteer’s hands.
Through that fragment, Sigurd Sigurson was able to glimpse a portion of the Oracle’s astonishing mental world.
Based on the information he read from it, he even wrote the final chapter of the [Otherworld Apocalypse].
Completely captivated by the Milestone’s extraordinary power, he became obsessed with collecting the remaining fragments using the information left within the piece he possessed.
Then, through sheer luck, he succeeded in absorbing one of those fragments into his own body.
That was also how he acquired the formidable mental ability known as the [Lesser Word of Command].